Definitions
hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
Word origin
From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).
Used in a sentence
“Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.”
“The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.”
“When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Plowed groove”6 letters
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